GusAReader

The beginning will be really similar, I do want to change it up though, one thing I can say is that I haven't thought of any major change until the Peace talks arc. Tbh I haven't had much time to think about the plot, busy month and all.

This chapter ended like that because I wanted it to be a pure fighting one, this is one of my earliest attempts at writing such scenes and I was looking for some feedback, unfortunately, that didn't happen, neither here nor at the other places I posted, so the chapter just became a bit awkward.

It'd be a spoiler for me to answer that, but as the chapters catches up you'll see the answer to your question.

I'll do a training arc before the rating game against Riser, there I'll look into developing the Boosted Gear.

I don't know Ippo, but that is what I had in mind for him, an extra is that I know about dragon shot being a long-range attack option, and I'll use it, it just won't be his main fighting style.

That happened at the ending of Chapter 6 (Or the 8th chapter, since there are two interludes), sure I didn't make the scene where Rias put the pieces in her, but I thought it was clear that it had happened.

My choice to make it so he doesn't remember everything was an attempt to avoid those fix everything real quick stories, this is as much of a learning experience for me as it is a story for everyone. Perhaps you're right and the AU path would've been better, but I'm at a point where I won't drop the story (to begin another one) and I don't want to make that big of a rectification.

Now, I wrote this a while back, but I'm pretty sure Rias never told the MC that, granted he knew that was the case (as much as any casual viewer or reader of the original DxD franchise would know, i.e. the most widespread notion of the event is that she did let him die, but I received comments saying that in the LN she didn't know about all of that), in this story she did let him die, not because she was evil, she did it because she was afraid to go after the fallen and that turn out to be some ambush to her and her peerage, so she let then go with their plan to kill the SG user of the city, but she saw an opportunity, she'd have a recruit with little to no resistance in Issei... We don't see OG Issei's reaction to that because he's replaced as soon as it happens (sort off), the consciousness that takes over doesn't care, for one, it's thanks to Issei dying that he could be there, another point is that he couldn't do anything about it. If he rebelled he'd be a stray and they'd kill him, so he gave them a chance, and he formed bonds with them to the point where he doesn't care that something that he had no control over happened to the body he now owned... I do plan on developing Rias, this would've been an interesting way to do so, but it's not one I'll chose. If this makes you dislike the story to the point where you no longer want to follow it then that's on me, but it is the path I chose and I'll take the consequences it brings. (Sorry for the long reply)

I started it at Questionable Questing and Fanfiction, they are ahead, however, I don't do daily updates. The ones here in Webnovel are only daily because I want them to catch up with what already is at those other places. FYI, at the other websites, I go by the same name as I go here, and the story is also called the same.